Garth Brooks to kick off comeback tour in Ireland

6:55 PM,
Jan. 22, 2014

Garth Brooks will head back on the road later this year.

Written by

Randy Lewis
| McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

To mark his return to touring after a dozen years, country superstar Garth Brooks will play two stadium shows in Dublin, Ireland's Croke Park, where he had performed sell-out shows in 1997.

The "Garth Brooks Comeback Special Event" will take place July 25 and 26 in anticipation of a world tour that's slated to get underway later this year.

"In '97, (when) we were lucky enough to play Croke Park, the stadium was under construction," Brooks said in a statement. "130,000-plus of some of the greatest fans in the world. I was quoted then as saying, 'When this stadium is finished, I would love to come ...